U-2 DRAGON LADY

 Desert Shield / Storm and Beyond

Operating Location - Crested Harvest,  OL-CH.   1704RS ( Provisional )
On the 17th August 1990  two U-2's deployed to King Fahad AB,  Taif  and these were followed by two TR-1's from the 17th RECONNAISSANCE WING at RAF ALCONBURY on the 23/08/1990.

October saw a SYERS equipped U-2 ( 1089 ) deploy from 9th SRW Det 2 OSAN AB Korea. In total six U-2's and six TR-1 were on strength during Desert Shield / Storm flying "OLYMPIC FLARE" Missions which saw aircraft equipped with SYERS, ASARS , IRIS, H-CAM and SENIOR SPAN sensors. On the 21/09/ 90  OL-CH was  designated 1704 RS ( Provisional) 

MONTH SCHEDULED MISSIONS FLOWN HOURS FLOWN
AUGUST 22 20 187.2
SEPTEMBER 52 52 433.8
OCTOBER 63 62 523.3
NOVEMBER 74 70 557.9
DECEMBER 77 77 630.4
JANUARY 130 111 872.6
FEBRUARY 183 172 1356.4
TOTALS 601 564 4,561.6
     
      OL-CH

KUWAIT BORDER PATROL

DESERT SHIELD 90
      Thanks Mark Lis

 
OL-CH 

THE MOTHER OF ALL SITES

 17th

RECONNAISSANCE WING

RAF ALCONBURY

GULF WATCH

 1704th PRS

THE STORM MAY BE OVER.
WANTED I HAVE IT

 

 I HAVE IT I HAVE IT
 1704th  PRS

 RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON

1704th RS (P) 

OL-CH

 1704th RS ( P )

(Printed) 

OL-CH
I HAVE IT I HAVE IT WANTED

 

 Adam Marigliani
   
    4402nd  

RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON

(PROVISIONAL)

 DRAGON LADY

TR-1/U-2R

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 5th RS
    WANTED I HAVE  BOTH
 

On going Monitoring

 
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363rd

AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING

 

 

 363rd

EXP OPS GROUP

 363rd 

EXPEDITIONARY 

RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON

 363rd

EXPEDITIONARY

RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON

I HAVE IT

 WANTED I HAVE IT

 

 WANTED
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380th

AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING

 

 380th

AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING

 

   U-2 DRAGON LADY

 
I HAVE IT I HAVE IT

 

   WANTED

 

 

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